Book Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise…

— Hugh Grant

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

— Irving Stone

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young…

— Pablo Casals

I'd like a man much older than me, who can take care of me.

— Lisa

“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself…

— Mohsin Hamid

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Age truly is a state of mind. Are you 30, 40, or 50 something because of the number of revolutions around the sun or…

— Fritz Franke

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

— Joan Collins

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only…

— Theodore Roosevelt

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how…

— John Walter Bratton

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

— Francis Bacon